Is this patch still needed on XFree86 3.3.6 ? I was not able to find a version of the patch for this server and I lack the knowledge to make one myself. I am using potato I am downloading staroffice in Portuguese to see how it behaves with our stock xlib6g. If this is still need I can volunteer to apply the patch and provide an alternate package for those who need.
regards --macan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 04:49:36AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > Mr. Branden, > > > At first, excuse me for my poor english. > There is an issue that is being around from some days in the > debian-user-portuguese list, about some difficulties to make X working > in the right fashion with our (and others) language(s).These > difficulties prevent us from correctly type a large set of portuguese > words, because some some not-so-well-written third-party applications > (like StarOffice, WordPerfect, GtkExtText lib and others) do not handle > correctly keystrokes needed to type a word as "coração" (heart), but > "coracao". > > One workaround to this problem is the Quinot's Xlib patch (with some > conffiles hacking). After we install by hand the patched version, every > program just work fine. The drawback is, as this patch is not inside any > package of the Debian Distribution, we must _really_ do it _by_hand_, > even downloading the XFree86 source, applying the patch, recompilig it > to get _only_one_ library that will meet our needs to make our system > accept our language input without errors. > > It would be a _very_ good idea to simplify this process, making it an > optional package, or in another way that could address this problem. > > Surely all the debian-user-portuguese list would be pleased to discuss > this topic with you, and help whatever we can. > > > Thank you > > > Cláudio da Silveira Pinheiro > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >